The Opel Astra OPC has landed in Australia, with the German performance car becoming the latest model to join the ultra-competitive hot-hatch scene. The Opel Astra OPC is the quickest and most powerful vehicle ever to wear the Astra ...
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Nissan Motorsport has released a video of the team’s path to this year’s V8 Supercars Championship. Following the Nissan team’s unveiling of its four-car, four-driver line-up, with Todd Kelly, Rick Kelly, Michael Caruso ...
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The interior of the new McLaren P1 is the latest piece of the supercar puzzle to be revealed ahead of the production car’s debut at next month’s Geneva motor show. The official McLaren P1 interior shots showing just how crazy ...
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The Alfa Romeo 4C has been revealed in its production car guise ahead of its world premiere at next month’s Geneva motor show. Powered by a version of the 173kW 1.8-litre direct injection turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine ...
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Mazda has announced a boost in towing performance across its Mazda BT-50 4×2 and 4×4 ute range to equal the pulling power of best in vehicles its class. The 150kg increase in the braked towing capacity of Mazda BT-50 4×2 ...
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The Holden VF Commodore that will go racing in the 2013 V8 Supercars Championship has been unveiled, following the VF Commodore reveal by only a day and beating the debut of the Holden Commodore SS production car, on which the racecar is ...
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Forget everything you’ve read about the Mercedes-Benz A-Class. The first- and second-generation models were practical and relatively affordable, but they were not much fun to drive and looked like the kind of cars a new-age ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
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Automotive supplier Continental has unveiled a new in-car technology to help avoid distracted driving. The company has developed its own concept vehicle which is a retrofitted Cadillac XTS and equipped the technology called Driver Focus ...
The Nissan Altima mid-sized sedan will launch in Australia in October, likely with a price tag of less than $30,000. Speaking at the Australian media launch of the all-new Nissan Patrol, Nissan general manager of marketing Peter Clissold ...
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Mercedes-Benz has had its second top-ranked engineer leave its AMG performance arm for a rival German brand within a month. UK publication Autocar reports AMG’s key chassis engineer, Arnd Meyer, has jumped ship from Mercedes-Benz to ...
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Swedish manufacturer of commercial vehicles Scania has obtained an order to supply 709 buses to Mostransavto, the public transport operator in Moscow, Russia in collaboration with the GAZ Group. Under the collaboration the company will ...
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American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) has revealed a plan to invest about $100m in its Three Rivers manufacturing facility located in Michigan, US. The investment is scheduled to be completed by December 2013, which will add new production ...
Russia-based Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has stated that it has signed a number of further long-term contracts with Russian and CIS-based automotive companies. So far ...
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Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...